Compile Error: "Cannot Find File Specified." Help?

[Potada]

So, I just tried to compile and run a new map I'm working on for the first time when I got this:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zk3dvw69tgq6q2l/ctf_brimstone_a1b error.txt?dl=0

Any ideas on what went wrong?

Edit: Never mind, got it fixed.

 

[Erk]

Hey, could you put how you fixed it in your post? Other people might use this thread to help them with similar problems.

 

[Gale]

Valve Software - vbsp.exe (Sep 19 2016)
4 threads
materialPath: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\tf\materials
Loading C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\sourcesdk_content\tf\mapsrc\my_projects\ctf_brimstone_a1b.vmf
Brush 901: FloatPlane: bad normal
Side 1
Texture: DEV/DEV_MEASUREGENERIC01B

Vbsp.exe Failed, that's what caused the error. In case he never posts the solution. Another way to get this error is trying to compile off of a .vmf_autosave.

 

[Three Million]

Vbsp.exe Failed

Failed as in the program didnt run? When I had Comodo Antivirus installed the AV would block any programs it didnt recognize from running. So when it came to compile my maps I had to whitelist every program (like vbsp.exe) in order to compile my map correctly. This could have been the issue with @Potada

 

[Gale]

Failed as in the program didnt run? When I had Comodo Antivirus installed the AV would block any programs it didnt recognize from running. So when it came to compile my maps I had to whitelist every program (like vbsp.exe) in order to compile my map correctly. This could have been the issue with @Potada

It failed because of this error:

Brush 901: FloatPlane: bad normal
Side 1
Texture: DEV/DEV_MEASUREGENERIC01B

 

[nickybakes]

There's a couple of things that can fail bsp. The most common I can think of is tying a displacement to a brush entity (like making a displacement a func_detail). Also having a brush too close to the edges of the map (if you zoom all the way out on the grid in hammer, you can see the boundaries of the map) can crash vbsp. The reason you get the "can't find file specified" is because when vbsp fails, it doesn't create a bsp file. When vbsp is "done" it's job, vvis steps in and looks for the newly created bsp to add visleafs to. Vrad comes after. However when there is no newly created bsp, then vvis and vrad "can't find the file specified" because it was never created.

There's more than those errors that can crash vbsp and the other compiling tools. You can find them here: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Compile_Errors .

 

[zahndah]

vvis and vrad "can't find the file specified" because it was never created.

Instead of just doing nothing, they compile for the previous working version of VBSP. This is why sometimes it appears that your map is simply not updating when you update it.

 

[Potada]

Oh, jeez, sorry. I didn't notice the replies. My issue was just with an error in a texture. Pretty much what Gale pointed out. Using the problem checker and finding the brushes to fix got it to compile my map.(Though, I don't know the technical reasons why it would prevent compiling, but whatever)